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statement prepared by the present Treasurer (the Honourable H. Lister),
showing the names
of the Officers
It will be
who have acted as Treasurers during
the last twelve
years.
seen that the total number of changes
within twelve
years
has been
nineteen, the number of occupants
of the Treasurership nine, the average term of office for each occupant,
average
duration
Enclosure
sixteen months; the of duties each time, about eight months. It will be further observed that the
Treasurership
was attached on one
more than two years-
occasion for
(twenty-seven months) to the post of Superintendent of the Gaol, and on other occasions, for several months, to the post of Superintendent of Police. Of course, to compare small things with great by way of
way of illustration,
this is precisely
not
precisely!
as if the office of
Chancellor
of
the Exchequer in England,
were attached to the Governor of the
Gaol at Newgate, or to one of the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police. And it will be recollected!
that abnormal and inconvenient...
administr...